The Vinland Mystery (1984)
• January 1st, 1984 • 0h 29min
Documentary
Overview
This short documentary depicts the search, discovery and authentication of the only known Norse settlement in North America - Vinland the Good. Mentioned in Icelandic manuscripts and speculated about for over two centuries, Vinland is known as "the place where the wild grapes grow" and was thought to be on the eastern coast between Virginia and Newfoundland. In 1960 a curious group of house mounds was uncovered at l'Anse aux Meadows in northern Newfoundland by Drs. Helge Ingstad and Anne Stine Ingstad of Norway. Added to the United Nations World Heritage List, l'Anse aux Meadows is considered one of the most important archaeological sites in the world.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
A Year Along the Abandoned Road
Released on: 1991-06-01
Documentary
A portrait of a deserted fisherman's village in Northern Norway called Børfjord - a place with an in...
Ardal O'Hanlon: Tomb Raider
Released on: 2022-05-09
History, Documentary
Ardal O’Hanlon explores a 1930s quest to find the first Irish men and women using archaeology, answe...
Mixed Race Britain: How the World Got Mixed Up
Released on: 2011-10-08
Documentary
Documentary telling the surprising and positive story of how, throughout much of history, the races ...
Heaven Or Not
Released on: 2007-11-17
Documentary
Filmed in the quaint prairie town of Herbert, Saskatchewan, Heaven or Not by filmmakers Zuzana Hudac...
The Guanche Mummies of Tenerife
Released on: 2020-11-18
Documentary, History
Documentary that discovers all the secrets of mummification in the Canary Islands thanks to pioneeri...
The 1001 Faces of Palmyra
Released on: 2021-04-17
Documentary, History
Two thousand years ago, it was a flourishing city in the middle of what is now a Syrian desert. At t...
Attenborough at 90
Released on: 2016-05-08
Documentary
In celebration of his ninetieth birthday, Sir David Attenborough shares extraordinary highlights of ...
Santa's Wild Home
Released on: 2020-11-25
Documentary
Green lights dance across a star-filled sky, and snowflakes sparkle on the trees. It is little wonde...
Real Haunts: Ghost Towns
Released on: 2021-10-22
Documentary, Western
Real Haunts: Ghost Towns reveals the secrets of America's most fascinating ghost towns with "The Bea...
Mach 2
Released on: 2016-10-27
Documentary, TV Movie
The Concorde remains a legend of the sky. In both looks and performance, it was incomparable, and th...
Familiar Phantoms
Released on: 2023-03-02
Drama, Documentary, History
Familiar Phantoms is an experimental documentary short film about memory, history and trauma.
Postcard (Or, from afar, you are a mirage)
Released on: 2024-03-23
Documentary
"The palm trees on the reverse are a delusion; so is the pink sand". This line, taken from a poem by...
Personal Che
Released on: 2007-09-01
Documentary
A documentary that explores the myth behind the truth. Different people around the globe reinterpret...
Die Keltinnen
Released on: 2023-08-19
Documentary, History
Recent archaeological discoveries in Germany have changed the way we look at Celtic society and the ...
War on the Diamond
Released on: 2021-09-23
Documentary
The Indians and Yankees, both in a tight race with the White Sox, met at the Polo Grounds on August ...
The Best of ABC's Wide World of Sports: The 60's
Released on: 1990-01-29
Documentary
ABC's Wide World of Sports first started spanning the globe in 1960, and a generation of sports fans...
Reconstructing Utøya
Released on: 2018-11-29
Documentary
This documentary picks up after the horror has ended. Almost 500 teens are in grief as 69 of their f...